Principle Quotes

God is the source of wisdom for dream accomplishment. This is the principal principle.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

PULL and PUSH are basic principles of life. You must PULL to work hard and then PUSH to give hard... The reason why we gain is to give!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s one of the foundation stones of the Theory behind it. It’s something of a paradox – a mind-boggling annotation in the ever-puzzling and ever growing Anals of History. (Some readers may still be thinking that should be ‘Annals’ – however, the author of this work cannot be blamed for what you may think.)

~ Christina Engela

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

~ Paul Bamikole

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

~ Adolf Hitler

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

~ Sara Sheridan

Online & social media subscribers are hungry for content, but when newsfeeding them for growth, try not to get them juiced up for more email junk they’ll trash over trunk…quality over quantity is the preferred principle thing!

~ Tracey Bond

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

~ Criss Jami

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

~ René Descartes

Principle comes first, action thereafter.

~ Todd Stocker

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mechanically, the language should be constructed on as mechanical principles as possible; while in the contrary case it should be so constructed, that there shall be the greatest possible obstacle to a mere mechanical use of it

~ John Stuart Mill

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.

~ Noah Webster

... for systems belonging to the singular part of the stability boundary a small change of the parameters is more likely to send the system into the unstable region than into the stable region. This is a manifestation of a general principle stating that all good things (e.g. stability) are more fragile than bad things. It seems that in good situations a number of requirements must hold simultaneously, while to call a situation bad even one failure suffices.

~ Vladimir I. Arnold

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

~ Sameh Elsayed

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a prin

~ Harriet Brooks

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic, and later cuts or breaks.As a leader, in your leadership disposition, it behoves of you to acquaint yourself with this very leadership principle that edges forward. It's however, a human nature to adopt to an environment, so, leaders are humans, they tend to have this rapore with their followers which is somewhat a must needed. But the ability for such one to return and recollect to knowing his boundary makes a good leader. A phenomenon whereby he becomes drunk of platitudes, then it comes to a time where they (followers) dictate for him. And even sought and suggest plans without his consent or knowing, it has gotten to the point of plastic and break respectively.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

the basic principle of capitalism: that the penalties (losses) no less than the rewards (profits) of risk taking shall go to those who embark on a productive venture.

~ George W. Stocking

5:3 Do Not Wither within Your Area of Expertise...But the lawyer must not allow the client to make a decision that the lawyer believes is wrong without a forceful and effective presentation by the lawyer of his or her position on the subject. When the matter is within the sphere of the lawyer's expertise, the lawyer must not permit the fear of being wrong to devour the lawyer's obligation to urge a course of action which the lawyer believes to be the best. (p.58)

~ Peter Siviglia

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

~ Auguste Comte

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

~ Arthur Miller

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

~ Zadie Smith

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.

~ Richie Norton

In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

~ Christian D. Larson

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.

~ Jean Fresnel

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

~ Glenn Greenwald

If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

~ Charles Dickens

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

~ Carl Sandburg

The principle part of faith is patience.

~ George Macdonald